Sixth Amendment

The Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the admission of hearsay evidence of a woman’s testimony to an officer that her
boyfriend hit her because the evidence was admissible under the excited utterance exception.

The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to a man’s case in order to address the application of harmless error to
Sixth Amendment violations involving confronting those who create laboratory reports.

A booking card created by law enforcement in the course of a ministerial, nonevaluative booking process is not subject to
the police reports exclusion under Indiana Evidence Rule 803(8), the Indiana Court of Appeals decided today.

The Indiana Attorney General's Office is joining several states in co-authoring an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court
of the United States to modify or overturn its decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

The state's refusal to waive jury trials in one Marion Superior Court doesn't violate the constitutional rights of
the mentally ill defendants who appear in that court, ruled the Indiana Court of Appeals.

A decision today from the Supreme Court of the United States will have an immediate impact on Indiana, where state justices
are considering at least two cases about whether lab technicians who've tested evidence in a case must appear on the stand.